Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee's terms, Lynn was a rather unusual witness--he chose to answer all of the questions put to him. A radical lawyer whose political associations have always been a matter of public record, he has less to lose than many of the other people the Committee interrogates. His clientele is stable, and provides him with enough money to live comfortably. His most important case concerns an American Negro, Robert F. Williams, who is wanted for kidnapping in this country and has exiled himself in Cuba. In fact, at the rally he had speculated that his appearance in Washington might...
...haven of his villa at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, and 49 bottles of champagne were emptied at a party given for his rural neighbors. De Gaulle seemed tired, his eyes red-rimmed and sunken. Yet he had proved once more his ability to rouse grass-roots enthusiasm whenever he chose. If there were still any doubters, they would be able to watch De Gaulle work his magic again next month, when he plans to tour the Vendee in western France...
...Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening of the Suez Canal), Zeffirelli chose Second Empire France and Epic Hollywood as his cultural guides. "I have tried to give the public the best that Cecil B. De Mille could offer," he said, "but in good taste...
...case for a preoccupation with packaging is that the average supermarket shopper spends 27 minutes in a store containing 6,300 items and selects 13.7 of them-half on impulse. (If the shopper is a man, he is even more impulsive.) Gone are the days when a manufacturer chose a box because it was the right size and strength, then counted on the familiarity of his product to sell it. Self-service shopping has forced packages to take on many of the functions of advertising, or of the oldtime grocer's recommendation. With increasing competition for shelf space, each...
Part of the reason for the massive failure, of course, lies in the kind of men Eisenhower chose for his agents. Not until Hughes' book have the pettiness and vulgarity which distinguished the Eisenhower team--present company excepted--been so unambiguously depicted and decried. Cabinet meetings (which Hughes describes from his diary) were horrifying affairs, platitude succeeding platitude illiteracies compounding inarticulateness. It shocks to learn how crudely our leaders speak the language; one thought the pulp puppets of Seven Days in Many only talked that way because they'd just finished Advise and Consent. The truth is that Drury...